Evaluating hidden costs

With respect to some hidden costs in environmental cost accounting that often are not considered, it seems that tracing flow of material could avail more information. Jasch (2003) evaluated environmental costs by using the concept of product life cycle and MFCA. 

Although the material cost is relatively low, some adhesive systems may require metering, mixing, and dispensing equipment as weU as curing fixtures, ovens, and presses. Capital equipment investment must be included in any economic evaluation. The following items contribute to a hidden cost of using adhesives, and they also could lead to serious production difficulties ... 

This hidden production with its execution, logistics and quality management is what the paperless operation replaces. Therefore, the hidden factory needs to be exposed—both to set the goals for the paperless operation, which should be based on a streamlined version of the existing hidden factory, and to set the benchmarking goals that are important for evaluating the business case of a paperless operation on both the cost and benefit side. 

At last but not least, the main goal of the present work is feature search in spontaneous speech and in emotional response aiming at pre-clinical evaluation in order to define tests for AD diagnosis. These features will define the control group (CR) and the three AD levels (ES, IS and AS). A secondary goal is the optimization of computational cost with the aim of making these techniques useful for real-time applications in real environments. Thus automatic classification will be modeled with this in mind. We have used a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) with neuron number in hidden layer (NNHL) of max(Attribute/Number + Classes/Number) and training step (TS) NNHL 10. 

Several process parameters may interact to produce a different defect than would have resulted from the individual effects of these parameters acting independently. This complex case may require that the interaction of various process parameters be evaluated in a matrix of experiments. In some cases, a defect cannot be detected until late in the process sequence. Thus, a defect can cause rejection, rework, or failure of the product after considerable value has been added to it. These cost items due to defects can reduce yield and return on investments by adding to hidden factory costs. All critical processes require special attention for defect elimination by process control. 

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